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  1. Yes..very down to earth people. I forgot - wasn't springfield hoisery just before the Apollo?
  2. That's the one Cliff.Gives the viewer an insight to the level of housing in this area. Some fine big houses too..which became lodging and boarding places in my time. Top right in front of Vic Station cliffs is the brewery..where York House once stood.Those glasshouses look familar too. Dryden St. was fairly affluent in it's day...being popular abodes for clerical and the professional gent....fast forward 60 years and they were slums. Prince Charles attended the opening of Trent Poly..late 69? He was jeered by angry mothers complaining of poor housing etc.. The most mis
  3. Maybe it was The Saracens?...long time ago.Lots of raised streets and terraces up at the top of NSst. Colville Terrace and Villas..have small unusual housing that takes in the incline of that area. Bunta sandstone all over..these alleys bring you onto Addison St and Forest Rd. I am sure Cliff posted an aerial shot of this area..revealing Gill St. Hampden St. Alma Terrace etc..
  4. Likewise Terry..North Sherwood st.to all points. I do recall the Canning family..all 16 kids passed thru our door and ate brown sauce sandwiches at some stage. Foster Johns on the corner of Peel St. Open on Sunday..2-4. Newcastle Arms on Bluecoat..opposite the Hole in The Wall. The National Garage washed cars in competion wth Moons below. The Urdhu Library and Mrs Mingay for boxes of Tide,No:10's and Tik Taks. The YWCA and Bills shop . Major and Matlock St. St.Albans Terrace backed onto Dennis & Roberts. Ossington Villas housed the Guyat fa
  5. The night Sham played the Sandpiper... the place was jammers..jimmy pursey began Ulster Boy...and the place went mad..first time i ever saw plastic pint glasses. Seem to recall 2 bouncers bare chested on the stage. Ligged at the portland building when the delish Gaye Advert played.
  6. This was everywhere on the wireless as a kid..slice of Dundee cake and camp coffee..even that Ukranian Dentist on Chaucer Street. Do remember a reggae version played on Radio Nottingham's 'Back 'a yard' show.
  7. This very brave chaplain lived on Ossington Villas and sadly perished in 1918.He was a VC. DSO.MC. I will look further as there was a small chapel carnie..just down from 'Osso'. I am wondering if he was attatched to that. It became a methodist or pentecostal church in my go.. '61-'73. Theodore Bailey Hardy.RIP.
  8. Know it very well carnie..it was a cobbled dead end. On the left going up.past peel st. A boxing mate lived there.Facing it was an offy and a shop specialising in disability stuff.
  9. Over on my Birthday last year,bevvied up ....walked into Laguna, fabulous food, had the Lamb Baroda,the best gravy I've ever had in an Indian meal, 3 hours later..walked home a happy man.
  10. Dial that in Eire Dave..irish squad car arrives upside down!
  11. I deffo remember even before i went to school walking with the other lads..dropping them off and doing a shop in Brittains for veg on Chapel Bar. Sunblest/ Turners on Long Row and Dewhursts near Hurts Yard entrance. Into The Granary or The Pepper Mill for a treat. Even Jimmy Youngs voice. The same trip was made at 3.30pm Mums were run ragged in those days. Hand washing.daily food shop.mopping and sluicing. Did shell the odd pea though...with a bit of Twenty Tiny Fingers on the gram.
  12. Just a thought, I wonder how many people owned a telephone.. say in 1930? In the late 60's and early 70's not many of my mates had a phone.
  13. Sarah Vaughan..sang with the Fab Four. was a great wireless memory from kiddie time. 'Broken Hearted Melody'...don't know the year...but great song.
  14. Recall this whilst brushing my Mothers hair ..this, A letter from America and Listen with Mother. Childhood memories indeed. (Not forgetting the stack of shillings on the mantle fut' meter.)
  15. Cliffs photo above,near the Lea Francis sign: the building is St.Marys,Miss Bowlers room and Sister Aloysius's room on the first floor. I think I explained a few years ago,that Hooleys stored cars in that church, scaffold batons placed on the steps...not on Derby Rd. But on the lane to my school. Also the park tunnel was used for new deliveries. *circa '68 some new mk.1 Capri's were being delivered... i was mesmerised not having seen alloys much...maybe on a Cooper S. The Hooleys bloke offered me a spin, long story short- Brother snitched- Dad and me on the carpet at said garage- sat
  16. Another shawl maker in Hucknall, Rhodes Bros & Sons. Sidney Stephenson Rhodes passed ( founder ) passed away in 1952.
  17. Once a week our class trekked up Woodborough Rd. to use Elliot Durham swimming pool past some stables up to St.Jude's church and then a short way down Ransom Rd. If my memory serves me was there a garage with a large Dragon/Griffin on the wall that sold early Datsuns? Near the Cambridge pub. Anyroad after trying for me learners and paying 2p for a hairdryer, there was a oxo/Bovril vending machine,haven't seen one in yonks. The swimming instructor had a son as a member on here... blowed if can remember his name... Chubby faced with a moustache... Think Peveril knew him to...from
  18. Most of them were idiots! The rule " your missus can come in ...but not you"??!! No jeans tonight,.. when those in collared shirts and slacks were the troublemakers. You could see the folding pattern and pin marks on these thugs new shirts.
  19. Wool Shetland Shawls was started by The Framework Knitters in Hucknall in the 1850's. It was extended to Beeston and Chilwell by two Hucknall men, William Limb and Frank Wilkinson..
  20. I can see the convent,was that a glove factory on Sycamore?
  21. Aah! yes,recall that building... had a 'Georgian' look about it, commer van also.. thanks Cliff.
  22. Reading Rob's post on Maid Marian Way made me wonder how many GPO/Telecom/PO buildings were scattered about the city? I knew of Bath St,Broad St,Thurland St,..and learnt yesterday... the top of St.James's St. Anymore information?
  23. I'll go one further,sitting in The Generous Briton one night...bloke on the next stool produced a yellow tin...doused himself down...and promptly set fire to himself.... I rushed to find the Landlord... his answer? ..."oh! he always does that "!!